Recognition

Everybody has a reason to go to the car shows. Either to get a trophy and be recognized, just hang out with your friends and be recognized or in some peoples cases kiss some ass to be recognized.

A few entries ago I railed against HotKarz.com on his bid to kiss up to the car show crowd,with his "Best of the Best Awards". I rambled on how this was contradictory to his earlier battles on participant voting, the buddy system if you will. Everyone seemed to ignore the fact that campaigning for votes was a giant factor in getting an Award from HotKarz.com. If you have a Myspace page or Facebook page or a Twitter acount and so on and so forth, you can easily get your peeps, tweets and twits to vote for your car.

You can even use an older technology, E-Mail, as a well respected hobbyist has done just today to be eligible to get a $15.00 cheap ass trophy. Below you will see an e-mail from him asking for my vote. I replaced his name with --- to keep him as innocent as possible.


Hi Folks,

As some of you may already know, I was fortunate enough to take First Place at the Bonney Eagle Car Show. Becuase of this, I am eligible to win the "Best of the Fifties" title. All that I have to do is play a little politics. That's where you come in... If you could be so kind as to send an e-mail to ptwoodycrew@aol.com with "Best of the 50's" in the subject line and write my name --- -----in the message, then your votes will help me win the title. Only one vote per e-mail address. I appreciate your support.

Thank you,--- -----

Now many of you have probably recieved this and have wondered if --- deserves your vote, in fact he does, but shouldn't get any for campaigning. Sorry ---, no vote today, back of the line 2 weeks.

This E-mail has put an idea in my tiny little brain. Here we are only 3 or 4 shows into the season and I have already a plea for votes, Correct. So how about I start a campaign of vote grabbing by pleading with everybody to vote for, Drum Roll Please...NONE OF THE ABOVE !!!

If we all do this for the rest of the season maybe he will realize that an award given with a criteria such as this is just a $15.00 cheap ass trophy. Where as an award given for both recognition and appreciation for your involvement in the Hobby is an Award.